Essays on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases : including an inquiry into the mode of preparing ioduretted baths / translated from the French of M. Lugol, by W.B. O'Shaughnessy ; with an appendix by the translator, containing a summary of cases treated with iodine ...

  • O'Shaughnessy W. B. (William Brooke), 1809-1889.
Date:
1831
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    many practitioners apprehend, did I use daily the three grain-doses of iodine, as practised by M. Coindet. Not that I doubt the veracity of his statements, for, on the con- trary, I feel happy to acknowledge him as my predecessor in these researches, but because in the sphere of my own ex- periments the dose of three grains appeared to me liberal beyond measure, and likely to pass beyond the salutary effects ever produced by more moderate doses. CHAPTER II. CASES ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE EFFICACY OF IODINE. § I.—IODINE IN TUBERCULAR SCROFULA. Case I.—Eugene Chateau, lapidary, aged 22, whose fa- ther died paralytic at 48 years of age, and his mother while still young after a confinement; he had a sister, set. 33, subject to chronic ophthalmia, and two other sisters, still older, whose histories presented no remarkable feature : he was of most industrious habits, never suffered privations, or was exposed to any of the reputed occasional causes of this disease. From infancy he had been affected for several years with swollen cervical glands, and up to 17 years of age he had troublesome chilblains; he had also epiphora of both eyes since he was 10 years old, with dilatation of the nasal canal. At 19, 20, and 21 years of age, in the month of August, a pustule appeared on the back of the nose, at the orifice of the cartilage, and remained three months each year. When 22 years old, tubercular masses appeared in the neck, and a lichenoid eruption over the whole body; finally, on the